Educating for Cosmopolitanism - Lessons From Cognitive Science and Literature

Informationen zum Autor Mark Bracher is Professor of English at Kent State University. Klappentext Drawing on developments in cognitive science, Bracher formulates pedagogical strategies for teaching literature in ways that develop students' cognitive capabilities for cosmopolitanism, the pursuit of global equality and justice. Several staple classroom texts, such as Things Fall Apart, provide detailed examples for teaching practices. Zusammenfassung Drawing on developments in cognitive science! Bracher formulates pedagogical strategies for teaching literature in ways that develop students' cognitive capabilities for cosmopolitanism! the pursuit of global equality and justice. Several staple classroom texts! such as Things Fall Apart! provide detailed examples for teaching practices. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. What is Cosmopolitanism, and How Can Education Promote It? 2. How Cognitive Science Can Help Us Educate for Cosmopolitanism 3. Correcting Ethnocentric Prototypes of Self and Other with Achebe's Things Fall Apart 4. Developing Metacognition of Ethnocentrism with Lessing's "The Old Chief Mshlanga" and Voltaire's Candide 5. Correcting Faulty General Person-Schemas with Things Fall Apart, "The Old Chief Mshlanga," and Candide 6. Developing Cosmopolitan Action Scripts with Camus's "The Guest" and Coetzee's Disgrace

List of contents

1. What is Cosmopolitanism, and How Can Education Promote It? 2. How Cognitive Science Can Help Us Educate for Cosmopolitanism 3. Correcting Ethnocentric Prototypes of Self and Other with Achebe's Things Fall Apart 4. Developing Metacognition of Ethnocentrism with Lessing's "The Old Chief Mshlanga" and Voltaire's Candide 5. Correcting Faulty General Person-Schemas with Things Fall Apart, "The Old Chief Mshlanga," and Candide 6. Developing Cosmopolitan Action Scripts with Camus's "The Guest" and Coetzee's Disgrace

Product details

• Authors: M Bracher, M. Bracher, Mark Bracher
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9781137392268
• ISBN: 978-1-137-39226-8
• No. of pages: 149
• Series: Palgrave Pivot; Palgrave Pivot
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Kunst, B, Bildungssysteme und -strukturen, Bildungsstrategien und -politik, Research, Literature, Lehrerausbildung, Fachspezifischer Unterricht, Science, The arts, International and Comparative Education, teacher training, Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft, Creativity and Arts Education, Teaching of a specific subject, Teaching and Teacher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Education and state, Comparative education, International education, Educational Philosophy, Literature, general, Palgrave Education Collection, Educational systems and structures, Educational strategies and policy, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Teachers—Training of, Art—Study and teaching